ABSTRACT It was observed that students' performance for more than a decade both in internal and external examinations had been deteriorating even though the schools were staffed with qualified professional teachers. Thus there was a need to examine the relationship between teacher performance indicators and student academic achievement in Lagos State public senior secondary (SS) schools which is the concern of this study. Using the school as a unit of analysis, the entire population of SS 2 t...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the status of administrative use of computers in secondary schools in South-West Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was used carry out the assessment. The study sample consists of 24 four public schools and 16 private schools in Lagos State, and 44 public schools and 15 private schools in Ogun State selected randomly. Ten basic administrative duties and eight selected school characteristics were used as the basis for the assessment. A model was proposed...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to investigate the teacher's role perception and the expectation of this role by the teacher and his reference groups in selected secondary schools in Ondo State. A Questionnaire called STRES probed respondents' expectations regarding instructional, social/civic, guidance/counselling, management and personality roles of the teacher. It was hypothesised that there would be no significant differences in teachers' role perceptions and the expectations of such rol...
ABSTRACT The study examined resource quality and service delivery in four universities in South East Nigeria by ascertaining their accreditation status as well as the teacher-student ratios by various programmes taught in those institutions. It also examined the availability and adequacy of classroom communication materials; physical facilities as well as the number of lecturers in relation to teaching effectiveness. Furthermore, the study also ascertained how lecturers’ professional devel...
ABSTRACT This study examined the fidelity of implementation and eficcacy of Universal Basic Education (UBE) Programme in Kwara State. It investigated the gap between policy formulation and policy implementation in the UBE programme. The belief by various stakeholders in education that the huge investments made in the UBE programme had not been correspondingly compensated for by improved efficiency in basic education classes precipitated this study. A descriptive survey research design was use...
ABSTRACT The study was designed to ascertain the opinions, level of satisfaction (acceptability), and the sources of dissatisfaction of members of the University of Lagos community regarding the current strategies toward self-reliance of the University of Lagos. It was also to ascertain the perception of the operational managers of the self- reliance programmes of the institutions, about the problems in the implementation and suggestions for future practice and to analyse certain identified t...
ABSTRACT This study sought to determine empirically the extent to which disparity in school location, resource availability and school type affect the performance of (rural and urban public and private) secondary school students in Lagos state. The study involved sixty secondary schools drawn from rural and urban settings across the five zones in the state using a combination of stratified and simple random sampling techniques included sixty principals 600 cachers, forty officials of the Stat...
ABSTRACT This study examined the situation of infrastructure and welfare services available in the universities in South-West Nigeria vis-à-vis students' perceived motivation to learning. The study involved public universities in South-West Nigeria with different characteristics such as curriculum focus, year of establishment, ownership status and residential status. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for use and the target population for the study was the final year undergradu...
ABSTRACT This study examined some variables that are linked to student choice of courses and the implications of this on the achievement of the millennium development goals. The relationship of course prestige, earning potentials and employment opportunities to choice of courses was examined. Likewise the level of parental influence and gender on the student choice of courses was investigated by the study. The study focused on conventional universities in South-West, Nigeria. Survey and corre...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine desirable teacher attributes as perceived by administrators, teachers and pupils. The study was justifiable in the sense that most educationists and policy makers in Nigeria focus attention on the teacher, in various attempts to improve the quality of education. The descriptive research design was employed. The stratified random sampling technique was employed in the selection of the fifteen participating secondary schools in Lagos state. Th...
ABSTRACT This study examined the influence of some school input variables and the production of qualitative technical teachers in some selected institutions in south west, Nigeria. Seven research questions were raised and five research hypotheses were postulated and tested. Hypotheses one tested three research questions while hypothesis two to four tested the remaining four research questions. The study took its framework from the Hezel Crag‟s Model of an effective school system with emphas...
ABSTRACT The study focused on organizational climate and teacher job performance with a view to describing the context in which teachers carry out their duties and how this has impacted on their performance in private and public schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. It examined organizational climate variables which include school Characteristics (Class Size, School facilities and School Policies) and School Process ( Leadership Style, Motivational Strategies) in relation to Teacher Job Performanc...